Anyone else watching the USA F1 Gran Prix?

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Originally Posted by Rob If Arsenal showed up to a match with no boots, the match wouldn't go ahead. You need correct footwear in order to step foot on a football pitch. How exactly is it sportsmanlike for Ferrari and Jordan to race against nobody (because they weren't racing each other and let's not even kid ourselves that they were)? If the example you used for football happened, it would be fixed. Teams have shown up for matches without their kit bags before and the home team lent them their away shirts. Players have also lent boots. My point is your opposition do everything they can to ensure they are going to have a match. Only in Formula 1 would something like this happen. As for the chicane arguement, they had more practise sessions so they could have learnt the course easily. Something could have easily been done but it wasn't.

You're right on the first point.

You're wrong on the second. The qualifying had already taken place on saturday and so the cars were already in park ferme with their fuel and tyres for the race set in stone. The whole debate for a chicane took place on the saturday evening after qualifying. If the tyres weren't safe how come Michellin teams qualified? Because they wanted the negotiation of the chicane afterwards which is completely rubbish. Once qualifying takes place there are no scheduled practice sessions to follow because the cars qualify in race spec. Also there simply isn't time after qualification for proper practice before a race. There is 24 hours between them with night time and warm up races to include as well.